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1.1 miles (1.8 km) southeast of the entrance of North Bay, Door County in Lake Michigan Coordinates missing: Liberty Grove vicinity: Wooden scow schooner built by Jerry Dupree in Detroit in 1856. Mostly carried lumber from northern Michigan to Wisconsin and Illinois. Driven ashore by a gale in September 1869, while heading for Chicago with a ...
Many of the Wisconsin's islands in Lake Michigan are around the Door Peninsula. [3] Islands in Green Bay include those in and around the Green Bay Breakwater. Washington Island is Wisconsin's largest in Lake Michigan and also has a year-round population of 708 as of the 2010 census.
Chambers Island, named in honor of Col. Talbot Chambers, is a 2,834 acre (4.428 sq. mi.) island in Green Bay, about 7 miles (11 km) off the coast of the Door Peninsula, near Gibraltar, Wisconsin. It is part of the Town of Gibraltar in Door County .
Detroit Island is an island in Lake Michigan in the southern part of the town of Washington in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. The island has a land area of 2.578 km 2 (0.9955 sq mi, or 637.12 acres), [1] [2] out of which 27.6% is open to the public. [3] The northern end of the island borders the waters of Detroit Harbor.
The largest of the islands is Washington Island, in Door County, Wisconsin. [1] Washington Island accounts for 62% of the islands' combined surface area. [2] Others include Plum Island, Detroit Island, Hog Island, Pilot Island, and Rock Island in Wisconsin and Little Gull Island, Summer Island, Little Summer Island, Poverty Island, Rocky Island ...
The Island of Happy Days is a historic estate located on Stout Island in Red Cedar Lake, Barron County, Wisconsin. Built from 1909 to 1911, the estate was a summer home for the family of Frank Deming Stout, heir to the Knapp, Stout & Co. fortune. The estate was designed by Arthur Heun in a rustic style resembling Adirondack resorts.
Washington Island is an island of the state of Wisconsin situated in Lake Michigan. Lying about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of the tip of the Door Peninsula, it is part of Door County, Wisconsin. [1] The island has a year-round population of 708 people according to the 2010 census.
Cana Island is an island in Lake Michigan in the town of Baileys Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. [2] The Cana Island Light is on the east side of the island. It is possible to walk to Cana Island from the mainland over the tombolo when water levels are low. [ 3 ]